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Yeah, but Vesperia didn't have me spending 40min a pop on dualizing every time I dualized. I only stopped taking so long when I just started dualizing the two weapons I intend to sell, but now I'm out of worthwhile shards, so...

I beg to differ. I spent hours trying to master skills using less than optimal equipment just because the skills are tied to weapons.

Which is even worse with characters leaving your party for a certain period of time, which force you to sometimes power grind just for them (thank god Flynn gets skill when he comes back, otherwise, starting with Combination Sword +1 and onwards in the middle of the game would have killed me).

Frickin' Emeraude ._. Finally managed to beat her (story event boss) and damn that was hard :_; She's pretty annoying because of her aura-like attack that prevent me for hitting her...not to mention that her area artes manages to bring down my whole party each time she used it. It's not hard to dodge with my controlled-character, but all my party will still get wiped out because they can't dodge the damn thing

Frickin' Emeraude ._. Finally managed to beat her (story event boss) and damn that was hard :_; She's pretty annoying because of her aura-like attack that prevent me for hitting her...not to mention that her area artes manages to bring down my whole party each time she used it. It's not hard to dodge with my controlled-character, but all my party will still get wiped out because they can't dodge the damn thing

...please don't tell me that there are stronger boss than her ;_;

There's always someone stronger Though I suppose they would be considered 'bonus' bosses...

IMO, the worst bosses are the ones that actually give you hope that you could win... Then they go do something at the 30% hp mark that screws with your momentum

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I'm not talking about their stats but their ability to screw things up based on their attack animation and such That boss seriously giving me a hard time because she hits hard and also hard to land hit into

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IMO, the worst bosses are the ones that actually give you hope that you could win... Then they go do something at the 30% hp mark that screws with your momentum

Well not necessary, it's like when I was fighting the bonus dragon bosses or the Normal Arena Boss, I got them down to 30% then suddenly they got luck with one move and one-shot two of my teammates, sure I could life bottle them but almost immediately they get targeted again...

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Question about equipment- in the Future arc, both Malik and Pascal get weapons that are just average in P. ATK and C. ATK, but have overwhelming number in ACC, yes I know what ACC is for but my question is it worth the rather sharp drop in the other two stats?

Actually, I might as well ask the same thing about EVA, is it worth a drop in the other two defenses?

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Lol, finally beat the Carta game to obtain all three titles for Sophie, Asbel and Cheria. Has anyone else had that many problems and frustrations just to beat that one mini-game?

*raise hand*

The first two were manageable, but the hard mode was freaking insane- It's like the NPC suddenly became psychic... In the end what I did was to pause the game repeatedly as soon as the quote was said while scanning for the card (by that point, I had more or less memorized all the cards...).

Totally worth the Rita costume on Cheria though (Ponytail moe) I used it the rest of the way till the Future Arc.

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I actually cheated in the Carta Hard mode. I can do Easy and Normal, but I just couldn't do Hard even when I did it at 25 carta.

So what did I do? I took a picture and abused the heck of pause. So when they call out the beginning of the card, I immediately pause so I can check the picture to see where I go.

Well worth it though. Cheria in ponytail is nice change of pace.

Kurt for me was impossible to do in Hard under 60sec. Stupid reinforcements... pretty decent hp which means you can't focus them down quick enough, and if you ignore them they interrupt combos. So I had to beat him in moderate for the 60s title.

Oh well at least I gave him a good (if slow) beating in Chaos.

As for mastering titles, I dunno, I don't really have a problem with it. But then again, Chaos mode gives SP like theres no tomorrow, as pretty much everyone in my main party had the third Mastery title before I got the shuttle.

I cheated in Hard Mode too, but only after the computer cheated me. I'm sorry, but when they're only 2 words into the quote, "I hail...", and then it uses its super computer speed to zip across the screen and pinpointly slap the card... yeah. After that I said screw it because I had almost won without cheating, and then it cheated.

I found the hardest fights those optional duels against your party members. Hubert was just beating me to hell for so long. Think I eventually snapped and seriously dropped the difficulty setting. I swear Hubert and Malik only stepped up their games when trying to beat me up . Thus any time the fights got hard later in the game I kept looking at them and asking why they were holding back so much .

I couldn't really bring myself to play the card game too much. Suppose I should have just given into cheating and that would have worked fine.

With Hubert, fighting him long range is foolish, since they come out so fast (even ones that have cast times) and your healing is almost non existent. Luckily it's easy to interrupt his regular attacks (especially with drawing your sword with O), and Infernal Torrentx2 into sheathing worked for me.

Malik, you HAVE to evade spectral chains (goddamit Malik why don't you near-instacast when you're on MY team?), else you're gibbed even if you block it. Luckily, side evade makes you nigh invulerable to it, but if you don't have CC, you're done for. Apart from that, he was like hubert. A bit easier I suppose (although admittedly more unforgiving), since this time I have enough CC to Infernal Torrent X2 into Void Sword, which auto-sheathes your weapon and does nice damage to boot.

Besides, you're supposed to lose once, as you get another skit for the rematch. XD

Now what I'm having problems is Master mode in the Arena. You have to beat the mask man ONE ON ONE? (regular mode you get your entire team) Where Mystic Artes are sure fire death in Chaos mode without All Divide (which you don't have access to in the arena)? Yeah, I'm stumped...

But goddamn Emeraude. Ever since I 'discovered' the half stat spellbooks (I didn't look at my spellbook list for a long time), I've been trying to beat bosses with them. Even with All Divide and the "50% damage reduction if damage is over 750 (500 with Cheria)", her Mystic Arte gibbed my party. Then again I guess I shoulda used more people in B mode... them all using relatively short attacks, I guess I was just ASKING for her to use it on me.

Will try again tomorrow. I know she's easy enough without the spellbook in Chaos mode (didn't even need All Divide), but I LOVE challenges.